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SERIES I. 1887— 1888. 

14. The Hebrew and the Atheist. 

16. Passover and Easter. 

18. Who is Responsible (The State). 

20. The Saturday and Sunday Sabbath. 

SERIES II. 1888— 1889. 

9. The Ideal Commonwealth. 
10. The Puritanic Sabbath. 
13. The Messianic Age. 
23. The 25th Anniversary of Corner Stone 

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2b. A Benefactor Honored (Rev. Dr. Wise). 
27. The Removal of the Leaven. 

25. Deed Through Creed. 

SERIES III. 1889— 1890. 

fc. A Child's Prayer. 

9. Are We Better than the Heathen? 

16. Myths in the New Testament. 

20. Purim and Lent. 

23. War Against War. 

24. Martyr's Day. 

26. Ancient and Modern Saints. 

SERIES IV. 1890— 1891. 

1. Westward — Not Eastward. 

2. The Force In Nature— God. 

5. The Law of Environment. 

6. Benamin Disraeli. 

22. Love as a Corrector. 



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I. Theologies Many— Religion One. 
3. Shylock— The Unhistoric Jew. 

5. Darkness Before Dawn. 

6. On the Threshold. 
8. Delusion. 

12. Wanted— A Rational Religious School. 
Civilization's Duty to Woman. 
Justice, Not Charity. 
A Personal Interest Society. 

13. Ancient and Modern Idolatry. 

19. The Law of Retribution. 

20. Reverence to Whom Reverence Be- 

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21. Through Labor to Rest. 

22. Children's Rights and Parents' 

Wrongs. 

23. Slay the Sin, but Not the Sinner. 

24. The Sanctity of the Home. 

25. The Noblest Title: "An Honest Man." 

26. The Highest Fame: "A Good Name." 

27. A Plea for Noble Ambition. 

SERIES VI. 1892— 1893. 

1. Israel's Debt to the New World. 

2. Past and Present Purpose of the 

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3. Ernest Renon. 

4. From Doubt to Trust. 

5. Sinai and Olympus. 

6. One to Sow, Another to Reap. 

7. Brethren at Strife. 

8. Jew Responsible for Jew. 

10. Did the Other Prophets Prophecy 

Jesus? 

II. Model Dwellings for the Poor. 

12. Under the Lash. 

13. The Lost Chord. 

14. Sabbath for Man, Not Man for Sab- 

bath. 

15. Give While You Live. 

16. The Bubble of Glory. 

17. Compulsory School Attendance. 

19. A Plea for Home Rule In Ireland. 

22. To-day. 

24. The Red, White and Blue. 

SERIES VII. 1893— 1894. 

1. Religions Die — Religion Lives. 
7. Social and Religious Barriers. 

11. Debt to Ancestry — Duty to Posterity. 
17. A Father's Love. 

23. A Sister's and Brother's Lovs. 



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SERIES VIII. 1894— 1895. 

2. My Creed. 

4. How Not to Help the Poor. 
6. The Stage as a Pulpit. 

8. The Pulpit as a Stage. 

10. Religion in the Public Schools. 

12. "Hope Deferred Maketh the Heart 

Sick." 

16. Post Mortem Praise. 

18. The Better for Our Enemies. 

20. The Worse for Our Friends. 
28. The Israelite as a Husbandman. 
31. Arms Against a Sea of Troubles. 

SERIES IX. 1895— 1896. 

2. Ethics or Religion? 

3. Faith With Reason. 

5. Wherein Israel has Failed. 

11. The Place of Prayer in the Service. 

13. The Place of Music in the Service. 

15. The Place of Ceremony in the Service. 

SERIES X. 1896— 1897. 

2. The Guard Neither Dies nor Surrenders. 

4. Thy People Shall be My People. 

6. Whoso Tilleth His Soil Shall Have 

Bread. 

8. The Mote and the Beam. 

10. What Has Been Shall be Again. 

12. The People Without a Country. 

13. Uses and Abuses of the Pulpit. 
15. Uses and Abuses of the Press. 

17. Uses and Abuses of the Novel. 

21. The Best Preacher— The Heart. 
23. The Best Teacher— Time. 
25. The Best Book— The World. 

27. The Best Friend— God. 

28. Ten Seasons of Sunday Lectures. 

SERIES XI. 1897— 1898. 

1. A Wise Question Is the Half of Knowl- 
edge. 
3 Woe, if All Men Speak Well of You. 

5. Good to be Great, Great to be Good. 

7. Who Is God that I Should Hear Him? 

9. Noble Impulses are Speechless Prophets. 

18. The Martyr Race. 



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SERIES XII. 1898— 1899. 

The Gospel of Joy. 

The Gospel of Sorrow. 

The Sunset of Life. 

Old Memories and New Hopes. 

90th Birthday of Lincoln and Darwin. 

The Voice that Calleth In the Wilder- 
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Turning Parent and Child Toward Each 
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Israel Weak, and Yet Strong. 

Cyrano de Bergerac, the Story of the 
Jew. 

Responsibility of the Rich. 

SERIES XIII. 1899— 1900. 

1. "The Choir Invisible." 

9. Chanukah Lights and the Christmas 

Tree. 
12. The Will and the Way. 
14. Individual Morality. 
16. Domestic Morality. 
18. Social Morality. 
20. Sectarian Morality. 
26. International Morality. 
28. Isaac M. Wise— A Memorial Tribute. 

SERIES XIV. 1900— 1901. 

2. From Better to Best. 

6. Our Wrongs to Our Little Ones. 

8. "We Jews." 

10. The Diagnosis. 

12. A Remedy. 

25. A Time to Keep Silence. 

26. "God's First Temples." 

27. Daybrsak. 



SERIES XV. 1901— 1902. 

1. Preacher or Teacher? 
7. The Reign of Right. 
9. The Reign of the Soil. 

10. The Reign of Love. 

11. The Reign of Religion. 

14. Boyhood and Girlhood — School Days. 

15. Youth— the Age of Love and Matri- 

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18. Manhood— the Age of Labor. 

21. Decline — the Age of Beneficence. 

22. Death— the Age of Rest. 

23. The Aftermath, Summary and Conclu- 

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25. "Still Achieving, Still Pursuing." 



SERIES XVI. 1902— 1903. 

1. A Wreath Upon the Grave of Emile 

Zola. 

2. Secretary Hay and the Roumanian 

Jews. 

3. "Lo, the Dreamer Cometh." 

4. Quoth the Raven "Nevermore " 

5. Quoth the Reason "Evermore." 

6. The Cause of Sin. 

7. Selfishness. 

8. Avarice. 

9. Envy. 
10. Anger. 
12. Infidelity. 

15. Meaning of Virtue. 

16. Life— Wisdom. 

17. Self-Control. 

13 Self-Control Continued. 
19. Courage. 
21. Justice. 

23. Our Debt and Duty to Dr. Wise. 

24. The Two Redeemers. 



SERIES XVII. 1903— 1904. 

1. The Demands of the Age on the Church. 

2. The Higher and Lower Pleasures. 

3. Is God or Man Unjust? 

4. Canst Thou by Searching Find God? 

5. "Mary of Magdala." 

6. The Battle Not to the Strong." 

10. A Backward Look. 

11. Not Congestion but Colonization. 

12. No Morality Without Spirituality. 

14. What Shall Our Children Read? 

15. What Shall Our Children Believe. 

16. The Russo Japanese War. 

17. Egotism. 

18. Altruism. 

19. Pessimism. 

20. Optimism. 

21. Realism. 

23. Idealism. 

24. Dowieism. 

26. Trade — Unionism. 

SERIES XVIII. 1904— 1905. 

3. "Turn Not Back." 

5. Kindle the Hanukkah Lights. 

6. Zionism as a Cure of Anti-Semitism. 

8. Complaints and Remedies. 

9. Parsifal, the Triumph of Innocence. 

10. Amfortas, the Torment of Guilt. 

11. "Still Throbs the Heart." 

12. Does Religion Pay? 

13. Made Wise Through Pity. 

14. Lincoln, an Inspiration. 

lfi. Israel, a Nation, Race or People? 
17. Israel, a Nation, Race or People? II. 
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21. The Jew Militant. 

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23. The Seder Evening. 

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A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel, 

BY 

Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. 
Philadelphia, February nth, 1906. 



It was on February nth, 1861, forty-five years ago this 
day, that Abraham Lincoln left Springfield, Illinois, to proceed 
towards the capital of the Nation, as its chosen Lincolni0nleaving 
President. His friends and neighbors came to home, asks for 
take leave of him, and, while their hearts rejoiced prayers - 
at the honor that had been conferred upon their fellow-towns- 
man, there were tears in the eyes of many in the hour of 
parting. Lincoln himself was deeply touched. Had he and 
they a presentiment that they might never see each other 
again? " Friends," said he in solemn farewell: " I know not 
how soon I shall see you again. A duty has devolved upon 
me greater than that which has devolved upon any other man 
since Washington. He never would have succeeded except 
for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times 
relied. On the same Almighty Being I place my reliance. 
Pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which 
I cannot succeed, but with which success is assured." 

I have no doubt but that the prayers thus asked for were 
fervently lifted up for the President elect, and not by his towns- 
people alone but also by millions of his supporters Their havjng been 
throughout the troubled land. Was their prayer answered ques- 
answered? Many there are who will at once ,one ' 
say no, and, in proof, will point to a whole Nation inconsolable, 
aye, to a civilized world in tears, because of his death of 
martyrdom, a little more than four years after his leave-taking 
at Springfield. 

As for me, I know of no better instance of prayer 
answered than the success that attended the supplications 
that were offered up for Lincoln when he entered 
upon his perilous office. He did not ask that J ar 7 y rdom° 
supplications be offered for his escape from a 
death of martyrdom; he but asked for prayers that success 



go 

might attend his labors to save the country from dismember- 
ment and to remove a malignant cancer that threatened the 
very life of the Nation. In a little .more than four years, the 
Union was saved and slavery was abolished, and, his work 
being done, the greatest since the days of Washington, martyr- 
dom came as a halo of glory rather than as a sign of failure 
or as a token of divine disapprobation. 

Of course, had mortals had the disposition of it, they 
would have assigned a far different end to the savior of his 
Man would have Nation and to the emancipator of the slave than 
assigned a differ- death b}^ an assassin's bullet, five short days 
after General L,ee's surrender at Appomattox, on 
the very day of the rehoisting of Old Glory over Fort Sumter, 
and but a little more than a month after a grateful people hid 
entrusted itself to his wise and fearless leadership for another 
term of four years. They would have had him live to a good, 
old age, they would have had him continue in the full enjoy- 
ment of the fruitage of his labors, the idol of his people, the 
inspiration of all living kind, until a gentle death would have 
translated him from his field of earthly labor to the regions 
of his celestial rewards. 

But God's ways are not our ways, says the prophet, 
neither are His thoughts our thoughts. When I consider the 
wisdom that was manifest in the choice of this 
biy'deslgn 1 oTcod". peerless leader, I cannot but feel that in his tragic 
taking-off, when his work was done, there may 
have been a wisdom no less divine than that which called 
him when his work was needed. Probably his highest reward 
lay in having been spared the ingratitude of the Nation he 
had saved. Many a savior might have died happy had he 
died when his work was done, had he died before adulation 
could turn to envy and envy to malice, and malice to calumny, 
and calumny to base ingratitude. 

Every move in this wonderful man's career seems to speak 

of providential call and guidance. No man was ever more 

the chosen of God than was Abraham Lincoln, 

t N h ec m h a o n se Td«G°od e and y et no man ever S ave less evidence and 

promise of it than he. What people, unaided by 

divine direction, would have dared to select for its leader this 

untried man of the untrained West, in the crisis in which our 



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Nation found itself prior to the outbreak of the civil war? 
They would have sought among experienced statesmen, among 
men of proven executive power, of tried leadership, of great 
military prowess. They would have inquired among the 
Universities for those of marked attainments and of brilliant 
records, or among the illustrious families for one whose dis- 
tinguished name and descent might dazzle the masses and 
command the largest following of the select. Only the inter- 
mixture of the will of Providence with the will of man can 
explain the daring choice our fathers made when they selected 
Abraham Lincoln for their chief-executive. The capitol of 
Washington had never before, and has never since, seen a 
President like him. Never before had a man received so little 
training for so exalted a place, never had a man possessed such 
few graces for a position that was to throw him in contact with 
the most polished of the land, never had a man had so little 
schooling for an office that required profound knowledge in 
many of the most intricate problems of political and economic 
and military science. 

And never before nor since did man master such gigantic 
problems, within so short a time, as they were mastered by the 
first of our martyr-presidents. Long before his 
first term expired, there was no statesman in all i^ 6 ^ career 
the land comparable to him, no master of the 
English tongue superior to him, no military strategist like 
unto the chief-commander of the Nation. Read his delibera- 
tions with his cabinet, read his consecration of the battlefield 
of Gettysburg, his second inaugural address, his orders to his 
generals, or, better, retrace your steps to the wretched log-cabin 
in the mountain-wilds of Kentucky, where his cradle stood, 
and then follow his career, step by step, from cabin to capitol, 
and tell of another like it, in history or in literature, in fiction 
or in truth. 

His father a backwoodsman, unlettered, unmannered, 
thriftless. His mother an invalid passing into the grave 
before her boy is yet nine years old. We next 
see him in the new lands of Indiana but in the c"J , Mbin t? 
midst of the old hardships, differing only from 
the other in finding here some opportunity for schooling, seven 
months long in all — the only schooling in all his life. But, if 



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of the school of letters he had little, he had an abundance of 
the school of life. Life for him, from earliest childhood to 
manhood's estate, meant hard toil, from early morn till late at 
night, for little more than the absolute necessities of life. 
And full of hard toil his life continued to be till his last day, 
now as farm hand, now as rail-splitter, now as flatboatman, as 
shopkeeper, soldier, legislator, lawyer, congressman, and finally 
as President of the United States. 

And while that passage from log-cabin to White House, 

from farmhand to President was marked by wonderful flashes 

of intellectual genius and of moral and spiritual 

his fitness at first greatness, such revelations were vouchsafed only 

unrecognized. ° ' ■* 

to friends and neighbors or to clients and con- 
stituents. To the Eastern and Southern people from among 
whom the Presidents and great men had hitherto come, when 
they first beheld him, he seemed a gnarled, homely-featured, 
horn-handed, hoosier from the uncultured West, more fit to 
drive a yoke of oxen than to guide a nation out of a sea of 
trouble into a haven of rest. 

Listen to the impression his appearance made on our own 

townsman, Mr. Alexander McClure, who had done much toward 

effecting his election, and who had proceeded to 

Even by his friends _..-.,, c -<_\ i • ,. r 

Springfield to confer with him on matters of 
national importance. " My first sight of him was a deep dis- 
appointment. Before me stood a middle-aged man, tall, gaunt, 
ungainly, homely, ill-clad — slouchy pantaloons, vest held shut 
by a button or two, tightly fitting sleeves to exaggerate his 
long, bony arms, all supplemented by an awkwardness that 
was uncommon among men of intelligence. I confess that my 
heart sank within me as I remembered that this was the man 
chosen by a great nation to become its ruler in the gravest 
period of its history." 

It was not long, however, before Mr. McClure discovered, 
as the Nation discovered later, that it was God who had chosen 

Lincoln, that, when the people cast their vote for 

His divine call ' r r 

made manifest him, they but expressed the will of Providence, 
at '1 st - which had decreed that the Nation founded by 

the Colonial Fathers shall not be severed, and that the slave 
shall be free. They remembered what the Bible said respect- 
ing the choice of the shepherd David in piefereuce of other 



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men, who, in external appearance, seemed the better fitted for 
the kingship: "the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man 
looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on 
the heart." They recalled the humble origin of Moses and 
Jesus and Luther, and recognized that they whom God chooses 
for his work must have other distinctions than looks or wealth 
or name or culture. They must have hearts of saints, souls of 
heroes and martyrs. They must serve as anvils in the smithies 
of affliction so as to be able to serve as the hammer of God 
when the hour for striking comes. 

It was a critical time in the stoiy of our Naticn, the most 
critical since the days of our conflict with our mother country 
across the sea. The hand of brother was lifted 
against brother. The South stood arrayed against j^ 6 need ' of the 
the North. The hour called for a great man, for 
a man wise of heart as well as of mind, for a man of inspired 
soul and resolute will, for a man whose personal ties and family- 
traditions counted as nothing in the balance, for a man who, 
being of the common people, and the conflict of the hour having 
the greatest need of the common people, could easiest appeal 
to them and come in closest touch with them. The hour called 
for a man all whose labor and ambition were consecrated to 
his people and all whose purposes accountable to his God. 

Such a man was Lincoln. A man more honest than he 
never lived. Rivals derided him, parties ridiculed him, papers 
carricatured him but no man was ever able even 
to breathe the breath of suspicion upon any of The heart of a 
his motives. Unlike so many of the schooled 
diplomats and statesmen, who. in their eager development of 
brain, starve the heart, bis brain was all the keener because 
of its blending with heart, and his heart all the richer 
because of its blending with brain. An unkind word never 
passed his lips, an unkind deed never stained his hand, an 
unworthy thought never polluted his mind. His countenance, 
rugged and gnarled as it was, was as open as a page of Scrip- 
tures; his eye as clear as innocence itself. 

Not ambition, not lust of power or wealth, of fame or 
name, bore him to the heights he occupied. He had never 
sought an honor or an office, had never thought himself fit for 
a position of responsibility when it was entrusted to him. 



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Men in public office have been modest, have been unassuming, 
but never one like Abraham Lincoln. There was no more 
surprised man in all the land than he was when the choice of 
President fell to him, and it would have been difficult to find 
one who could have accepted it with greater reluctance. Full 
forty years long had he yearned for the coming of a man 
strong and wise enough to rid the Nation of the curse of 
slavery, without severing its bond of union. Full forty years 
long had that hope and prayer burnt within him, and would not 
cease burning, like the vision of the burning bush that Moses 
saw in the wilderness. And when the call came to him at last, 
as it had come to Moses, when the voice of God, through the 
voice of the people, called out to him, saying: " I have seen 
the afflictions of a people unjustly enslaved; I have heard its 
cry of anguish by reason of its taskmasters. I know the strife 
that is tearing the Nation asunder, and I am resolved to deliver 
it, through thy hand. Get thee to Washington, and inaugu- 
rate there the work of redemption and of union," when that 
call came, he, like Moses, had not the heart to rush upon a 
work, which the greatest had feared to touch, fearing lest, 
by unfitness, he overthrow all future chance, all further hope. 
" Let another and an abler go," he sadly said, "this is a work 
for giants, not for pigmies, like me." 

It -was a work for a giant, and for just such a giant as 

Lincoln was. It required a giant's heart to make an entry 

into the capital of the Nation, as President elect, 

The soul of a hero. , . , 

such as he was obliged to make, in the dead or 
night, by stealth and by circuitous routes, to escape the assas- 
sin's hand. It required a giant's mind to present an inaugural 
address such as he presented, on the fourth of March, 1S61, 
and to outline a course of action such as he laid before his 
Secretary of State. The men of his cabinet, proud of their 
statesmanship and scholarship and polish and influence, had 
believed that the Western hoosier, the accident of the polls, 
would but be a figurehead, that they themselves would rule 
and dictate the policies of the land. They soon learned that 
their chief was a ruler, not only by the grace but also by the 
call of God, a ruler with the inspiration of a prophet, with the 
wisdom of a sage, with the will-power of a conqueror. Before 
a month of his presidential term had elapsed, the Nation 



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marvelled as much as it had doubted, and the South realized 
that it was a war to the death that it had entered upon. 

And a war to the death it continued, four years long, till 
slavery was abolished and the union was saved. There was 
no abatement in its vigor, no change in its policy, 
no quarter to the enemy, until they recognized | m movabi° e Se 
the stars and stripes as the common flag of all of 
the United States, until they conceded to the enslaved negro 
the human rights and political liberties which the white man 
enjoyed. There had been irresoluteness and vacillation too 
long, and at too terrible a cost. Had the issue been squarely 
met, had the voice of God instead of the voice of politics been 
spoken, had there been whole truths instead of half measures, 
in short, had there been a Lincoln in the Presidential chair 
fifty years earlier, there would have been no need of a civil 
war, no need of ravaged states, devastated homes, paralyzed 
industries, impoverished people, no need of brother's hand 
being raised against brother, no need of six hundred and 
twenty-five battles being fought, in which blood flowed like 
water, and which widowed and orphaned and darkened tens of 
thousands of homes. 

Others before him had seen the calamity that threatened 
the Nation as clearly as he saw it, and had yearned for a 
redeemer as sincerely as he. Long before him, otherg dared not 
Patrick Henry had said the slave question "gives to risk their 
a gloomy prospect to future times," and George po,lca u ure - 
Mason had written to the legislature of Virginia " the laws of 
impartial Providence may avenge our injustice upon our 
posterity," and Jefferson had said: " I tremble for my country 
when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot 
sleep for ever," and Madison had said " where slavery exists 
there the republican theory becomes fallacious," — but, while 
they saw the danger and despaired, he felt it and acted. 

Others dared not to risk their political future, he dared to 
risk even his life. It was his innermost conviction that one 
nation, under one government, without slavery, 
had been divinely ordained, and he was resclved hj ® *™ ° r,s 
that not a State should be struck from the union 
by treason. He saw no other assurance for lasting peace than 
war to the bitter end, no other promise of harmony between 



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the North and South than a decision upon the battlefield 
whether or not all men are born free and equal politically, 
whether or not individual states had a right to secede. It was 
in our old Independence Hall where he solemnly declared that 
he believed in the Declaration of Independence, that he believed 
with all his heart that it guaranteed liberty to all, and reaching 
a climax of eloquence, and speaking as one inspired, he said: 
" If the country cannot be saved without giving up that 
principle, I would rather be assassinated on the spot than 
surrender it." 

And well did he see to it that the country did not surrender 

its principle. And dearly did he pay for it. That of which 

he had had a presentiment when he spoke in our 

And paid it to the •, rr\, • i 1 1 ± i 

,„„. city came to pass. 1 he assassins hand struck 

assassin. J ± 

him down, but not till, by his labors, his country 
was saved, till the stars and stripes waved again over the North 
and South, till union and federal soldier laid down their arms, 
never to take them up again against each other. 

The turf has grown thick over the graves of those who 
paid with their lives for their country's honor. The bitter 

enmities of half a century ago are now forgotten. 

Lives immortal as . 

Savior of the union But not forgotten is the name of Abraham L,m- 
as Freer ot the coin. Not forgotten is the sacrifice of martyrdom 

slave. . . 

which he laid upon the altar of his country. 
Annually the still remaining veterans of the long and deadly 
conflict assemble to do reverence to the memory of their well- 
nigh canonized leader. Annually sons of these veterans assemble 
to pledge their fealty to the memory of him who led their 
fathers and their country to victory. Annually, on his natal 
day, a grateful posterity burnishes into new lustre his crown 
of glory, and piously resolves that as long as oceans shall 
beat against our Atlantic and Pacific shores, as long as the 
Alleghenies and the Rocky Mountains shall lift their heads 
into the blue empyrean, as long as proud Old Glory shall wave 
from highest North to furthest South, so long shall the name 
of Abraham Lincoln live in the loyal American heart as the 
Savior of his country, as the Chosen of God. 



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